Nepal, April 26 -- Two weeks ago I got a phone call from a friend I first met in the early 1990s. He told me he was applying to a PhD program at one of the universities in Nepal. He further said the u... Read More
Nepal, April 11 -- On March 22, 2024, an important exhibition titled "Modern Encounters in Architecture: Kathmandu Valley (1945-85)" opened at the Taragaon Next Museum in Boudha, Kathmandu. An eponymo... Read More
Nepal, March 29 -- Working on and off for almost a decade, the historical sociologist Lokranjan Parajuli and I were able to put together articles written by the political and literary historian Leelan... Read More
Nepal, March 15 -- Our knowledge of the history of school education in Nepal is rather limited. When some colleagues compiled a list of nearly 150 PhD dissertations completed by 2016 at various univer... Read More
Nepal, March 1 -- Let us only examine the data for the past three calendar months (December 2023-February 2024). During that period, several individuals who were usually based abroad, bought books in ... Read More
Nepal, Feb. 16 -- For some time now, the Nepali public at large has been criticising the quality of journalism rendered by our country's traditionally influential print news outlets. This criticism is... Read More
Nepal, Feb. 2 -- Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about two related aspects of higher education and research. First, the general issue of research misconduct, of which plagiarism is a par... Read More